kaleidoscope

I am digging through my piles, sorting and accounting all the works in project I have going.  Here's the first I found and need to resurrect.  I started this one about a year ago.  I pinned this image on pinterest, because I loved the colors and knew they would be great in a quilt and I LOVE the colors...but, I don't know if I love this quilt.  

I realize this is the beginning stages and it usually gets better.  The pattern is Kaleidoscope.  I wanted to reverse the colors, so the background would have color and the stars would be white.  I love it this way, but I wish I had done it in 2.5 inch squares.  I know that would have been more work, but it would've been more effective.  Oh well, I'm not starting over, and I really want to see it finished, so I will persevere.  haha.  

Fall is still no where near making an appearance here in Houston, so it seems like good time to continue working on it.  Might help us get in the mood anyway.

wip wednesday--courthouse steps.

I started another quilt.  I have more projects "in progress" than I would like, but I'm completely out of batting and haven't bought more.  Hopefully soon, batting will move to the top of my list of things to get...

linking up with freshly pieced.

wip wednesday-rainbow scraps

I'm a day late, but still wanted to share.  I needed to clear out some scraps and decided I wasn't sick of rainbows yet, and made this rainbow quilt.  I always think it will make a bigger dent in my scraps than it does, I'm still almost overflowing.

I try to keep my scraps from getting too out of hand, so I have a method that seems to work for me.  Scraps first go to a drawer in my sewing table.  The scraps in this drawer get used a lot, it's kind of my go to bin for fabric.  Once that drawer is full, I start sorting by color.  I have a shoe size bin for each color (2 bins are missing from this photo). This is my limit--if the bin won't close I just have to start a scrap quilt.  Currently my blue and pink scraps are really, really full.  I've got to figure out a blue and pink scrap quilt I guess.

anybody have any great tips for managing scraps??